Keynote Speaker: Lisa Nakamura, Associate Professor of Speech Communications and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She is the author of Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and a co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000). She has published articles on race and the new media in The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Women's Review of Books, Unspun: Key Terms for the World Wide Web, The Cybercultures Reader, Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture, Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices, and the Visual Culture Reader 2.0. Professor Nakamura is an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year. The keynote speech is co-sponsored by the Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Connecticut College.

New Works Commissioned by the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology for the 11th Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium:
“Remembered River” - A Multimedia Dance, Video and Piano Performance
Anita Cheng, Anita Cheng Dance – Choreographer
Ronaldo Kiel, Brooklyn College – Visual Artist
John J.A. Jannone, Brooklyn College – Composer, Software Artist

“The Isle of Cattywampus” - A Stereoscopic Puppet Film
Jeanne Stern, Univ. of Texas – Film and Multimedia; Connecticut College ’03
Erich Ragsdale, Univ. of Texas – Radio-TV-Film Production

“Bellows” - A Zoetrope/Photography Installation & Film Project
Eric Dyer, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County – Visual Arts/ Animation

These artists will participate in week-long residencies preceding the symposium during which they will "create" their works on-site, and present workshops with students, faculty and community members exploring the nature of their work.They will present their finished commissioned pieces at the symposium as an installation or performance.

See schedule for more information.